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Increase your Happiness!

What specifically impacts our happiness and how can we shift it?
The three greatest predictors of happiness are optimism (the belief your behavior will eventually matter), social connection, and how we perceive stress (as a challenge or as a threat). If we want to raise happiness we need to make both mindset and behavior shifts.

What are the five key steps that we can take each day to increase our experience of happiness?

1) Bring gratitude to mind – Write down three things that you are grateful for each day

2) Journal – About a positive experience you’ve had recently for 2 minutes once a day

3) Exercise – Engage in 15 minutes of mindful cardio activity

4) Meditate – Watch your breath go in and out for 2 minutes a day

5) Engage in a random, conscious act of kindness – Write a 2-minute positive email thanking a friend or colleague, or compliment someone you admire on social media

Do these steps for 21 days, and you will begin to see a lasting shift in your mindset towards more positivity.

How are you using this information to increase the success of organizations and leaders?Happiness is a choice, but leaders and companies can make that choice easier by providing education about how to raise positivity in the workplace, creating social engagements, authentically praising individuals.

What is the Happiness Advantage exactly?
Your brain works significantly better at positive than at negative, neutral or stressed. Every single business and educational outcome improves when we start at positive rather than waiting for a future success. Sales improve 37% cross-industry, productivity by 31%, you’re 40% more likely to receive a promotion, nearly 10 times more engaged at work, live longer, get better grades, your symptoms are less acute, and much more.

How do we help ourselves get there?Genes and environment will define your happiness, UNLESS you make conscious changes to your mindset and habits. If you do the latter, your happiness will no longer remain under the tyranny of your genes, childhood and environment.

In the end, happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change. It is the belief that we can.

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How is your level of positivity and happiness shaping your success? Take these five steps for 21 days and share with me what transpires for you.